Learning ReactJS
I recently started learning ReactJS and rebuilt my status pages (https://status.boardiesitsolutions.com) to learn it. So far really like it and plan on doing other projects using it as well and I've put together a little blog post about learning it and the odd little hurdle that I hit.
Let me know if you have any feedback :)
Nice! Started this myself too this month. I'll also build the frond end work with it. Currently doing a udemy course to get the basics of components and state while building a dynamic site wi h firebase and stripe.
Why did you choose react? To me any framework looked scary. They are all advertised as not beginner friendly. I'm a hobby Python programmer and don't consider myself a good programmer. However I understand concepts easy. In that case it just becomes a new language to understand. Small steps! I ended up picking the one based on most information available out there. React.
React makes sense so far. That makes it great to learn and I can't wait to start using it in practice. Maybe I'll follow your idea and post about it too :)
Anyway a bit of a brain dump 🤔🙃 good luck with your journey!
Ah that's great. I chose React because pretty much every blog post and job posting I was seeing was related to React so I thought it must be fairly good give it a try. So far I'm really liking it and find it quicker to implement more complex functionality compared to vanilla HTML/CSS/JQuery that I used to do.
Thanks for documenting the journey! Looks like you've got a solid start.
Here are a couple of resources I highly recommend. These two instructors are my personal favorites but there are plenty of them out there that range from beginner to advanced.
Wes Bos - https://wesbos.com/courses
Kent C. Dodds - https://kentcdodds.com/workshops/
It's well worth it to spend a little bit of money on one of these to give yourself a solid foundation to continue building.
Keep on plugging away and learning as you go. Good luck!
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out, although I rarely buy courses to learn a new framework/language. I tend to find courses only get me so far and I do better by working on something and looking it up as and when I need to do something.
I can totally understand that. Kent C Dodds posts a lot of great tutorial content to his blog and most of his workshops are available on YouTube/GitHub.
https://egghead.io/courses/the-beginner-s-guide-to-react
Of course, the React docs themselves are good too and there's no shortage of open source apps out there built with React that you can read the source of to figure out how they did something.
Yea absolutely, I found the docs and guides are pretty good for React.